The infographic below shows how over-the-top (OTT) video platforms are growing and evolving. The change has been very rapid with people now streaming content through these platforms and it has become one of the important sources of entertainment. This demand surge is mostly influenced by the lockdown as every home is connected to the Internet and it has become a basic necessity in urban areas. OTT platforms such as Amazon prime, Netflix and Disney Hotstar are the most viewed platforms and the numbers will continue to rise in the coming years with higher number of broadband connections in homes and people streaming by connecting their televisions to Internet.

The era on watching cable TV has changed forever as people prefer to watch the TV programmes on demand rather than wait for them to be broadcasted. Apart from this a lot of content not available on cable TV is also accessible on demand on these streaming platforms.

Internet service providers have more challenges with these upcoming trends as they need to fulfill the customers need with providing good quality high-speed Internet for streaming online with lower latency and without buffering for multiple HD streams. Most of these content providers are accessible through local caching servers and Internet Exchanges which are accessible through peering, reducing the cost of the Internet upstream for ISPs.

Jaze ISP Manager helps Internet service providers (ISPs) to design and create customizable RADIUS based policies with separate queuing for peering and Internet bandwidth to help reduce ISP costs and provide better quality of service for OTT and other services to end users.